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August 23rd, 2011 by admin

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Pear Cottage Cheese Salad (8-23-2011)

Mom's Tips

August 23rd, 2011 by Jim Field

  • 2 cups (16 oz.) 2% Cottage Cheese
  • 2 medium pears, chopped (peeled or unpeeled)
  • 2 celery ribs, chopped (I pull off most of the strings)
  • 1/3 cup chopped pecans
  • 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger

In a large bowl, combine all the ingredients.  Chill untl serving.  Makes 6 servings, 3/4 cup each.  May add fresh pineapple chunks, also.  Or, if you prefer walnuts, you can substitute for the pecans.

Fans Critical of New Cy-Hawk Trophy

Sports

August 23rd, 2011 by Jim Field

Cy-Hawk Trophy (Associated Press)

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – Fans, a former coach and the governor are all panning the new Cy-Hawk trophy that will go to the winner of the annual game between Iowa and Iowa State.  The trophy features a farm family around a bushel of corn.  The trophy, sponsored by the Iowa Corn Growers Association, was unveiled Friday. Since then, newspaper and television websites have been filled with people unhappy with it.  Even former Hawkeye coach Hayden Fry and Gov. Terry Branstad have let their feelings known.  Fry tells The Des Moines Register it’s a nice-looking trophy but doesn’t relate to football. Branstad says he thinks the Corn Growers Association could have done a better job.  A corn growers spokeswoman says they are taking comments and trying to figure out “what’s best.”  Sponsoring officials have announced that they will hold a press conference to discuss the new trophy.

McCluster Gets Shot to be Chiefs’ Mr. Versatility

Sports

August 23rd, 2011 by Jim Field

     KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Dexter McCluster is back where he feels most comfortable.  That should make opposing defenses decidedly uncomfortable.  The 5-foot-8, 170-pound self-described “jitterbug” played mostly running back growing up, but he moved into a slot receiver role while becoming a multi-purpose star at Mississippi. When he was selected by the Kansas City Chiefs in the second round of the 2010 draft, the idea was to use him a similar fashion to college, putting him in the backfield and at times splitting him out wide.  He played mostly receiver last season, along with returning kicks and punts, but is shifting into the backfield again during training camp, and coach Todd Haley says he’s encouraged by his progress.  The Chiefs return to preseason action Friday night against St. Louis.

Tuesday morning accident

News

August 23rd, 2011 by Ric Hanson

No injuries were reported, following a two-vehicle accident early this (Tuesday) morning, near Morton Mills, in Montgomery County. Sheriff’s officials say a car driven by Janie S. Voss, of Villisca, and a semi driven by Timothy A. Bunda, of Emmetsburg, collided near the intersection of Highway 71 and 155th Street, at around 4:55-a.m. 

Voss was traveling north on Highway 71 when her Chevy Cavalier was rear-ended by the semi, which was registered to Tim Bunda Trucking. The collision caused a total of $2,850 in damage. 

Charges are pending the completion of an investigation into the crash.

Cardinals LF Matt Holliday Gets Moth Stuck in Ear

Sports

August 23rd, 2011 by Jim Field

     ST. LOUIS (AP) – A moth got stuck deep in Matt Holliday’s right ear, forcing the St. Louis Cardinals slugger out of a game against the Los Angeles Dodgers.  With two outs in the top of the eighth inning Monday night, Holliday walked off the field holding his ear. Cardinals trainer Barry Weinberg tried to assist the All-Star left fielder as he
headed toward the dugout.  Team spokesman Brian Bartow says Holliday was taken into a dark room and trainers put a light by his ear to try to lure the moth out. That didn’t work, so they used a utensil to get the moth, which was still alive, out of Holliday’s ear.  Holliday was not available for comment after a 2-1 loss but appeared to be OK, Bartow said.  Holliday was replaced in left field by Corey Patterson.

Dodgers 2, Cardinals 1

Sports

August 23rd, 2011 by Jim Field

ST. LOUIS (AP) – Aaron Miles’ RBI triple keyed a two-run, ninth inning rally and the Los Angeles Dodgers came from behind to beat the St. Louis Cardinals 2-1.  Cardinals starter Chris Carpenter, who has never lost to Los Angeles, dominated the Dodgers for eight innings, shutting them out on five hits. Carpenter took a 1-0 lead into the ninth, but then hit Juan Rivera to start the frame.  Manager Tony La Russa brought in Arthur Rhodes, who struck out Andre Ethier. La Russa then went back to his bullpen, but that move backfired when Miles tripled to right center off Fernando Salas (5-5) to tie the game at 1-1.  La Russa then went to Jason Motte, who got Rod Barajas to ground sharply to short. But shortstop Rafael Furcal bobbled the ball briefly allowing Miles to score the go-ahead run.

Two teens arrested in connection with Bluffs stadium fire

News

August 23rd, 2011 by Ric Hanson

Authorities in Council Bluffs say two teens were arrested Sunday, in connection with the August 14th fire in an office trailer near the Pirate Cover Water Park. The early morning blaze spread to a nearby storage shed and destroyed several pieces of equipment valued at more than $100,000. Both buildings are owned by the Council Bluffs Community School District.

According to Council Bluffs Police Detective Jon Clark, a 14-year old boy was arrested Sunday and released to the custody of his parents. A 17-year old was also taken into custody, and was being held Monday at the Southwest Iowa Juvenile Detention Center. The teens’ names were not released. They’ve been charged with suspicion of second-degree arson and conspiracy.

Detective Clark says both teens have admitted to their involvement in the case, but he declined to elaborate on how the fire started.

Trial tests new non-surgical heart valve replacement

News

August 23rd, 2011 by Ric Hanson

A trial is underway at Mercy Medical Center in Des Moines on a heart valve replacement procedure that does not require opening up the patient’s chest. Cardiologist, Atul Chawla, says they are doing the procedure on patients with severe aortic stenosis, or failure of the aortic valve.

Chawla says a metallic cage that has pig tissue made into a valve on it is mounted on a catheter and the catheter is sent through a leg artery into the heart. Dr. Chawla says the new cage valve is then installed right into the diseased valve.

He says they go in with a balloon and dilate the old valve and then place the cage, which is self-expanding, and it opens up and pushes the old valve out of the way. Chawla says they are looking for up to 18-hundred patients who are interested in taking part in the trial.

Chawla says the trial is comparing this procedure with the standard procedure to see if it is the equivalent without having to open up the chest. The second part of the trial is examining whether this non-surgical procedure is better for patients who cannot have the one-heart operations. Chawla says the first couple of procedures have had great results.

He says the patients were discharged much earlier and much healthier than those who undergo the surgical procedure because there is not recovery from the surgery. Chawla says his first patient was sitting up and talking and having dinner three hours after the procedure. Chawla says they kept the first patient’s in the hospital for three days as a precaution, but someone could normally go home 48 hours after this procedure. The trial will continue into early spring or summer of next year, and then the F-D-A will evaluate the procedure and determine if it can be used.

Chawla says it usually takes the F-D-A six months to one year to analyze the data from a trial, as they like to have at least one year of follow up data. An F-D-A panel would then approve the procedure. The approval is usually given first for patients who can’t undergo the open-heart operation, and then later approved for all patients. Chawla says another non-surgical procedure that uses a totally different type of valve recently won F-D-A approval and should be available at the end of this year. The valve Chawla uses is called the Medtronic CoreValve, and you can find out more about participating in the trial at: www.aorticstenosistrial.com or by calling 515-802-4057.

(Radio Iowa)

Hospital uses plane for quick transport

News

August 23rd, 2011 by Ric Hanson

While many hospitals use helicopters to bring patients in quickly, a hospital in the Council Bluffs area is switching to an airplane for certain circumstances. Dr. Rob Chaplin is medical director of the children’s transport service at Children’s Hospital and Medical Center in Omaha. He says the twin-engine King Air 100 airplane extends their ability to reach ill children and transport them to the hospital.

“With the helicopter, the range is about 150 miles, on average, and with the new aircraft, our range will be about a thousand miles,” Dr. Chaplin says. The transport service will now cover all of Nebraska, central and western Iowa and parts of South Dakota, Minnesota, Missouri and Kansas.

“We are expecting to be busy,” Chaplin says. “This is a service that no one else provides in this part of the country, especially for pediatrics. The closest being probably Children’s Mercy in Kansas City and then Denver Children’s out in Denver.” He says more physicians are seeing the advantage of having a dedicated pediatric team that can now take to the air to transport very ill children to the specialists in Omaha.

“It is equipped with the same equipment that we would carry on the ground or in the helicopter,” Chaplin says. “We have all of the medical equipment that we bring along. We have the ability to perform any of the procedures that we could essentially anywhere else in the state we can now do in the aircraft as well.” The Critical Care Transport’s first flight was to Kearney, Nebraska, last week.

(Radio Iowa)